Work

Phenomenology of Perception

Overview

Phenomenology of Perception (French: Phénoménologie de la perception) is a 1945 book about perception by the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, in which the author expounds his thesis of "the primacy of perception". The work established Merleau-Ponty as the pre-eminent philosopher of the body, and is considered a major statement of French existentialism.

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Philosophers who discussed Phenomenology of Perception

• Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• Edmund Husserl

Related ideas

• Analytic philosophy
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Mind–body dualism
• Intentionality
• Anti-intellectualism
• Being and Nothingness
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• Intersubjectivity
• A. J. Ayer
• Psychoanalysis
• Perception
• René Descartes
• Space
• Time
• The New Yorker
• Martin Heidegger
• Reductionism
• Dialectic
• Consciousness
• Cogito, ergo sum
• Being and Time
• Phenomenology (philosophy)
• Routledge
• Edmund Husserl

Place in the tradition

Part of Embodied cognition.

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